The recent $6.7 billion arms agreement between Poland and South Korea marks a major step forward for Warsaw, establishing it as the new center of gravity in European land warfare.

A deal between the US DoD and MP Materials to restart rare earth production at Mountain Pass in California is a page out of China’s industrial policy rulebook. But it will be years before US domestic rare earth production can catch up.

The Canada-EU Security and Defence Partnership may not represent a systemic shift, but it’s an important step toward correcting the strategic imbalance that has left Ottawa (and Brussels) vulnerable to coercion by Washington.

What makes Iran so important to global geopolitics? And how would a regime change impact great power rivalries involving Russia, China, and the West?

Geopolitics and shared interests have driven the Kingdom and Israel together, such that at one point normalization appeared inevitable. October 2023 changed all that - but perhaps not for long.

With the center of tactical gravity shifting toward drones and AI, the EU and its member states are now playing catch-up in a race to improve domestic R&D and production capacity.

The EU’s path to true strategic autonomy runs through the very thing the bloc has always lacked: political will.

Despite the disasters of the early phase of the Ukraine war, a reoriented wartime economy and massive spending increases have left Russia’s armed forces in a better position than when the conflict started.

Maritime drones and AI systems are emerging as early beneficiaries of Europe’s newfound defense spending largess.

Russia’s shadow fleet has blunted the impact of Western energy sanctions, and other sanctioned states will seek to duplicate the trick in the future.